Throughout our project, we strived to create helpful educational materials for the general public and other iGEM teams.
Programming is a very important and very useful skill for biologists to have. Unfortunately, many biology students are intimidated by coding and don’t know where to start learning it, and many universities lack courses that could provide the necessary introduction to programming. Because of that, our team teamed up with the iGEM teams from Sheffield, Cambridge and UCL to have a series of introductory workshops on different areas of programming in biology.
These were the workshops that we hosted:
The workshops consisted of both a theory part, to learn the backgrounds of the topic, and exercises to practice, to ensure every participant can gain learn the most.
Very few people know about the wide range of applications for Spider Silk. Because of this, iGEM EPFL, iGEM Copenhagen and our Team made Instagram posts, informing about Spider Silks and introducing the ways we are using them, hoping to inspire people to learn more about this amazing material.
Together with Eindhoven we provided a guideline for future iGEM teams and other people interested in citizen science in human practices. Our Instagram posts show how to plan a survey, what questions one could potentially ask and what things to keep in mind. Additionally the guide provides insight what quantitative methods for analysis there are and how to use correlations analysis. You can see the full series on our Instagram or examples on our partnership page!